It was fairly obvious to see the support base that President Obama had obtained when he was a mere candidate for the presidency. Primarily this was the younger age group. He broke the “low turnout” rate of young voters by, in my mind, speaking to them in their own language. Many parents and adults find Facebook, Myspace, youtube, and other social networking sites as ways teens communicate. However with our most recent presidential election. Barack Obama altered the way politicians will run for many years to come.
My article, written by Daniel Nations on About.com, states how “For Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was radio. For John F. Kennedy, it was television. And for Barack Obama, it is social media.” I found this the most compelling sentence in the entire article. President Obama simply altered what 2 of America’s most loved presidents have already done. Used the latest technology to reach an untapped source of voters, and in this case it was the youth of America. Hundreds of thousands of supporters follow President Obama everyday of Twitter and Facebook; Writing comments, liking or disliking, but inevitably making their voices heard for other americans to read.
The way that President Obama used Social Media/Networking to accumulate an abundance of young supporters is just a glimpse into the future of American Politics.
Politics and Social Media
NCarlascioReading Response week 3 in wiki
This is the link to my annotated article:
http://www.diigo.com/user/ncarlascio?tab=0
This is the link to my article itself:
http://webtrends.about.com/od/web20/a/obama-web.htm
It was fairly obvious to see the support base that President Obama had obtained when he was a mere candidate for the presidency. Primarily this was the younger age group. He broke the “low turnout” rate of young voters by, in my mind, speaking to them in their own language. Many parents and adults find Facebook, Myspace, youtube, and other social networking sites as ways teens communicate. However with our most recent presidential election. Barack Obama altered the way politicians will run for many years to come.
My article, written by Daniel Nations on About.com, states how “For Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was radio. For John F. Kennedy, it was television. And for Barack Obama, it is social media.” I found this the most compelling sentence in the entire article. President Obama simply altered what 2 of America’s most loved presidents have already done. Used the latest technology to reach an untapped source of voters, and in this case it was the youth of America. Hundreds of thousands of supporters follow President Obama everyday of Twitter and Facebook; Writing comments, liking or disliking, but inevitably making their voices heard for other americans to read.
The way that President Obama used Social Media/Networking to accumulate an abundance of young supporters is just a glimpse into the future of American Politics.